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  • BOOK REVIEW: 'Mightier than the Sword'

    By John M. Taylor - Special to The Washington Times

    Is “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” the most influential work of fiction ever written in America? In all likelihood, yes. Not only was it an overwhelming best-seller - more than 300,000 copies were sold in the year after its publication - but it addressed the most divisive issue in the country: slavery. Published August 26, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Girl in the Blue Beret’

    By James E. Person - Special to The Washington Times

    A friend of mine spent one of his college years during the 1970s in England studying history. As part of a work-study assignment, he visited the homes of families in London living on public assistance to take stock of their material needs. Published August 26, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: ‘A Bitter Truth’

    By Muriel Dobbin - Special to The Washington Times

    Perhaps the saddest truth of war is that it corrodes all it touches. In “Bitter Truth,” Charles Todd’s theme is war, and as is the case in his earlier novels, plot is sublimated to historic events, in this case those of World War I. Published August 26, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Most Controversial Decision’

    By The Rev. Michael P. Orsi - Special to The Washington Times

    Ever since the 1960s, revisionist historians and religious leaders have condemned President Harry S. Truman’s use of the atomic bomb to end the war with Japan in August 1945. Published August 24, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: ‘Troublemaker’

    By John R. Coyne Jr. - The Washington Times

    There’s a wonderful scene from the first episode of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” between Mary and Lou Grant (Ed Asner), her short-tempered boss, teetering on the edge of rage. Published August 23, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Thank You Economy’

    By CAROL HERMAN - The Washington Times

    At a time when the economic outlook is grim and we daily brace ourselves for bad news from the volatile stock market, reading Gary Vaynerchuk’s “The Thank You Economy” is a welcome break. Published August 22, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Ripple Effect’

    By Gary Anderson - The Washington Times

    As a governance adviser with a provincial reconstruction team at Abu Ghraib, I par- ticipated in a water war in Iraq. Abu Ghraib is not just a prison; it is a county-sized municipality on the western outskirts of Baghdad on the north bank of the Euphrates River. Published August 19, 2011 Comments

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  • BOOK REVIEW: 'The Man in the Gray Flannel Skirt'

    By Martin Rubin - Special to The Washington Times

    The cleverest thing about this book is what it's called: It's always a neat trick when, by altering just one word in a well-known title, you can achieve the most apt one for your own. Published August 19, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: 'Willie & Joe: Back Home'

    By Michael Taube - The Washington Times

    If you grew up during World War II, the mere mention of the comic strip "Willie & Joe" should immediately bring back vivid memories. These two embodiments of front-line soldiers found themselves in just about every conceivable situation on the European battlefield, from foxholes to watering holes. Published August 17, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: COUNTERSTRIKE

    By Joshua Sinai - The Washington Times

    In the decade since the devastating Sept. 11 attacks, al Qaeda and its regional affiliates have been innovating their radicalization and recruitment practices - especially via the Internet - with the goal of finding impressionable Westerners. Published August 16, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: 'The Gift of Rest'

    By Michael Medved - The Washington Times

    If you've ever felt the yen to celebrate a Jewish holy day in a festive, traditional style, this marvelous book will enable you to approximate the experience - without calories from rich, filling food or risks of leaving wine stains on the white tablecloth. Published August 15, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: 'The Story of Charlotte's Web'

    By Priscilla S. Taylor - Special to The Washington Times

    Readers looking here for insights into how E.B. "Andy" White created his classic children's book "Charlotte's Web" will first have to plow through (or skim) 11 chapters of Michael Sims' ruminations on White's youth, farm life in Maine, city life in New York and the like - but the latter part of the book is worth the wait. Published August 12, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: 'Bossypants'

    By Albin Sadar - Special to The Washington Times

    ''Dying is easy. Comedy is hard." This gritty utterance, attributed variously to actors Peter O'Toole, Jack Lemmon and Edmund Gwenn, also could be applied to Tina Fey. In her newly released autobiography, "Bossypants," Miss Fey certainly puts the "comedy is hard" half of this adage through its paces. Published August 12, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: 'The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz'

    By Sol Schindler - Special to The Washington Times

    This is an important and profound book. It begins almost as an adventure story rather than the moral examination it really is. The author, Denis Avey, writes that he enlisted in the British army not for love of king and country but for the sheer hell of it. Published August 12, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: 'Who Shot the Water Buffalo?'

    By Gary Anderson - The Washington Times

    They say that being a Marine means you can grow old but you never have to grow up. That is only partially true. Ken Babbs' "Who Shot the Water Buffalo?" is a Marine Corps coming-of-age story. A reader probably has to have been alive in 1962 to fully appreciate this thinly disguised memoir of the author's time as a Marine Corps helicopter pilot in the second year of the Kennedy administration. Published August 12, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: In Germany after war's end

    By Martin Rubin - The Washington Times

    The effort to eradicate Nazism from postwar Germany is a big topic in every sense of the term, from the complicated balance between four occupying powers to the hydra-headed process that this effort entailed - not to mention the philosophical implications of such a task. Published August 10, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: 'Mr. Speaker!'

    By David C. Acheson - The Washington Times

    James Grant, author of five books on finance and financial history and a television commentator, has produced this interesting biography of Republican Speaker of the House Thomas B. (Czar) Reed. Published August 9, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: 'Lady Blue Eyes'

    By John R. Coyne Jr. - The Washington Times

    Early autumn, 1972. We were on a winning swing through the West, with Vice President Spiro Agnew as the administration's chief campaigner and the McGovernites on the run, hammered by speeches on Sen. McGovern's consistent inconsistencies. Published August 8, 2011 Comments

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